{"id":896,"date":"2007-08-24T11:38:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/896"},"modified":"2007-08-24T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T16:38:31","slug":"that-vast-wasteland-that-is-our-news-mediacontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/896","title":{"rendered":"That Vast Wasteland That Is Our News Media&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know someone who lives in Orlando&#8230;someone very special to me.&nbsp; So I pay attention when I see headlines about that city&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.local6.com\/news\/13956220\/detail.html\"><strong>1 In 2 Men In Downtown Orlando Have Guns On Weekends, Police Vet Says<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But&#8230;not&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; <\/strong>Guns are so prevalent in Orlando that 50 percent of the young men in the downtown area on weekends are carrying them or have access to them in a vehicle, according to a 20-year police veteran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;There are always guns involved, in just about every call,&quot; Orlando police veteran Derwin Bradley said. &quot;Out of every two guys walking down the street, one of them will have a gun.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Bradley said he has to assume most of the young men are armed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay&#8230;now&#8230;wait a minute&#8230;&nbsp; Is it one in two men in downtown Orlando&#8230;or one in two <em>Young<\/em> men&#8230;?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know someone who lives in Orlando&#8230;someone very special to me.&nbsp; So I pay attention when I see headlines about that city&#8230; 1 In 2 Men In Downtown Orlando Have Guns On Weekends, Police Vet Says But&#8230;not&#8230; ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; Guns are so prevalent in Orlando that 50 percent of the young men in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}